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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2011
A model predicting the number of prismatic loops dislocation punched at the ends of a cylindrical fiber by thermal mismatch stresses is presented and compared to another based on a mismatching ellipsoid. The longitudinal stress in the fiber and the interfacial shear stress are derived by adapting a shear-lag model to the plastic portion of the interface. In certain cases, the central part of the fiber is strained by plastic and elastic interfacial shear until it exhibits no mismatch with the matrix. This leads to a critical fiber length above which the number of punched loops is constant.